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i feel safer already
Just because the recording industry keeps a close eye on internet file-sharing these days doesn't mean you can evade the long arm of justice, antiquated mediums of entertainment! Indeed, Spanish police in the western province of Extremadura have recently conducted a major sting against bars selling crooked music videos on …
Just because they are downloaded doesn't make them illegal, that's not what the article is about. Distribution is different to a live DJ, I would think it is cloer to a rental shop license than a public broadcast licesnse. That's why rental videos used to cost 10x the price of purchased videos (and I guess the same for DVD's and games)
Also you'll find many dj's have archived off their personal 12" collection into MP3 to save lugging around 100kg of vinyl.
Yeah, take the jukeboxes away and arrest the people who had the jukeboxes installed and who probably had no idea that there were any criminal activities going on...
No talk of arresting the guys who built and supplied the jukeboxes, just their unwitting marks.
...and of course the police have fucked their businesses too, now that there is a blank piece of wall where there used to be a video jukebox.
"The quality of some of the songs (including "popping") clearly indicated that the tracks had been downloaded"
Right, because stuff that's been downloaded is made out of those dodgy knocked off ones and zeroes that fell off the back of a lorry...
Maybe he used some old decks to copy all of that old vinyl onto his laptop (probably a lot easier to carry around) and made a bollocks of the quality? *shrug*
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ.
I'd expect at least quality downloads - and the different recoding levels sorted out before expecitng others to pay for the 'priviledge' of a DJ.
As for video jukeboxes -- nice idea, self-contained box - hard drive, menu system, loads of music vids, coin mechanism. Can't be too much to set up, vids cost nothing.
Wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of the 'business men' who run the operatoin.
If I was an artist (or even a publisher) worrying about not getting any cash from the public for my performances, why would I remove what amounts to free advertising in the form of jukeboxes?
Are they afraid people will record the sound and pictures with their mobile phones and be so impressed with the lifelike authentic backgraound pub chatter that they will no longer rush out and buy a cd?
Or do they believe that we should pay for the privilege of hearing the music that might lead us to think "hmmm, nice track, think I'll take a punt on a cd"
I know the juke box owners/pub owners are unlicenced, but I'm questioning whether they ought to need a licence other than a public performance licence for a juke box? Most pubs (well some) already have a public performance licence.
Seems like not much gain for an awful lot of effort on the part of the industry police and I'd have thought they would be happy people were being exposed to songs while out and being happy, as that might mean they will want to recreate the happiness at home and go out and buy the music. Oh wait, that is advertising.
Paris, why not?